Grazing and Livestock

  • Brucellosis Zone Could Expand Beyond Yellowstone

    Brian Ertz

    The state of Montana is considering expanding the area around Yellowstone where livestock must be vaccinated and tested for the livestock disease brucellosis after several elk tested positive for the disease in the Ruby Mountains. Montana animal disease zone could expand – AP What this may mean for wildlife in the area is still uncertain.…

  • Iowa cow kills grandma (more animal attacks)

    Ralph Maughan

    Unprovoked attack leaves grandma dead while protecting one year old grandson- I wonder if the cows will be showing up at bus stops sizing up which children (or seniors) they can stomp to death 😉 For sure, cows kills far more people than wolves do. Maybe shelters should be built for the children. Family says…

  • DeFazio on wildlife service funding

    Brian Ertz

    The Campbell-DeFazio amendment, which would have cut Wildlife Services’ “Livestock Protection” program by $11 Million, failed 132-287. Only 30 Republican’s voted for it.

  • May 2011 Riparian Assessments of Jarbidge Resource Area

    Brian Ertz

    Recently, Western Watersheds Project won a court victory halting corporate livestock ranching on 450,000 acres on the Jarbidge Field Office, BLM in southern Idaho. It was a sweet victory for sage grouse, wildlife, and other environmental values in southern Idaho – but it may or may not be short-lived. Later this month, the Idaho U.S.…

  • U.S. Department of the Interior solicits design ideas for a new logo

    Brian Ertz

    The U.S. Department of the Interior is looking for a new logo and has submitted its request to an online forum in where anyone can sign up to submit their ideas and compete for the $1000 award should their logo design be selected by the agency. Logo: U.S. Department of the Interior – crowdSPRING The…

  • Public lands as carbon sinks (continued …)

    Brian Ertz

    “Reduced grazing saves carbon” A few years ago we discussed a Wohlfahrt study in the Mojave Desert which strongly suggested that desert ecosystems may play a significant role in sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere and sinking it into the soil.  Studies in Germany likewise demonstrated that human impact to soils both decreases the amount of…

  • Management of Predators: A need for changes in policies

    Brian Ertz

    George Wuerthner has authored this important report evaluating the objects of current and historical predator management and its consequences. Management of Predators: A need for changes in policies By George Wuerthner, May 2011 – Commissioned by Big Wildlife ABSTRACT: Management of predators has historically been based on extirpation and/or a grudging tolerance of low populations.…

  • Protecting the Millionaire/”Buckaroo” Way of Life

    Brian Ertz

    For those looking for a laugh, the Idaho Statesman‘s relentless infatuation with Cowboy Custom & Culture never fails to disappoint: Documenting the Idaho buckaroo way of life – The Idaho Statesman Owyhee County rancher Paul Nettleton adds that “cowboys dance in bars and ride in rodeos. Buckaroos herd cows day in and day out. They’re…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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